Edwyn anthony



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Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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EnwYN ANTHONY, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO E. HOE & 061, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PRINTING-MACHiNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,974, dated August 25, 1885.

Application filed April 13, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDwYN ANTHONY, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Jersey City, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Printing- Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement upon that described in Letters Patent No. 263,748, dated September 5,1882. In thesaid specification it is stated that in order to apply the invention the printing mechanism must be such as to print two webs on both sides, each Web being printed on alike, but the matter printed on one side of a web being different from that printed on the other; and it is further observed that the edges of the webs must lie in the same pair of parallel planes. The fundamental idea of the said patent consists in reversing one of the webs, then bringing the two together, (with or without other webs, as therein explained,) and longitudinally severing them. They are thus caused to form two streams running side by side, the streams being identical in every way except that the one stream is the reverse way up to what the other stream is. This conception, however, admits of a different view, for two such streams are always formed when two webs, printed on as above described, are brought together so that a side of one web is in contact with the similar printed side of the other, and by suitable deflection of the paths of both of the webs (instead of the complete reversal of one of them) this end may be attained.

The presentinvention consists in carrying out the conception from the standpoint just indicated by combining, with mechanism for printing both sides of two webs, means for slitting the same, and deflecting mechanism whereby the similarly-printed sides of the two webs are brought together and form two sideby-side streams, all of which is more particularly hereinafter set forth and claimed.

Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 an end view,of a machine in accordance with my invention.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, G D designate the form-cylinders. E E indicate the impression-cylinders which print one side of the web (No model.)

A, and F F those which print the other side. Similarly G G mark the impressioircylinders which print one side of the web 13, and H H those which print the other side. T U V V designate carrier-cylinders that leadthe web from one impression-cylinder to the next, so as to present a propersurface of it for the second impression on the same side; in, turningbars fixed in different horizontal planes, but 6 placed at right angles to one another and inclined at an angle to the direction of motion of the webs, and L L mark the rotating eutters for longitudinally dividing or slitting the webs. 6 5

' The paths of the webs, completely printed on both sides, may be easily traced. It is clear that the web A will pass round the roller (2 and thence be guided to the turning bar t. It then passes round the turning-bar t, by which its direction of travel is changed by a right angle; thence round the roller 1', and finally between the longitudinal or slitting cutters L L, the lower of which should be a cylinder to support the webs widthwise. The 7 5 web 13 passes round the leading rollers g, printed on one side; thence round the cylinders HYV H, thus getting printed on the other side, and from there round the leading roller h, being now completely printed on both sides. It next passes round turning-bar a and then goes between the slitting-cutters L L. Thus the webs, after passing through the said slitting-cutters, are divided longitudinally and form two side-by-side streams, facsimiles of one another, but one lying one way up and the other the other. 7 It should he observed that the deflecting devices should be arranged so that when the largest number of pages which can be placed 0 abreast on the printing-cylinders is even, the central lines of the widest webs that can be printed are brought together; but when the said number is odd, then the longitudinal line of one web, distant the breadth of a page 5 (measured parallel to the axes of the printing cylinders) from the central line, should be brought on to the corresponding line of the other web; and in both cases it is along the lines so brought together that the longitudinal 10o severance should take place with or without, according to circumstances, other lines of severance, as explained in the aforesaid specification.

It is obvious that my invention applies when the webs are transversely cut before being printed on, the sheets,of course,being suitably conducted between tapes.

Transverse cutting, folding, and delivery mechanisms are not shown, nor details of inking, &c.; and the printingdevices have been briefly described because their construction and operation is well understood, and they do not form a part of the present invention.

It is that the deflecting mechanism and the deflections which the webs undergo may be varied indefinitely without departing from the invention.

What is claimed is- EDWVYN ANTHONY.

Witnesses: I OHAs. RAETTIG, H. S. MITCHELL.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 324,974.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 324,974, granted August 25, 1885, upon the application of Edwyn Anthony, of Jersey City, New Jersey, for an improvement in Printing Machines, was erroneously issued to R. Hoe & 00., its successors or or assigns that this correction has been made in the records of the case in the Patent Office, and that the said Letters Patent should be read to conform thereto. Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 1st day of September, A. D. 1885.

[SEAL] G. A. J ENKS,

Acting Secretary of the Interior.

assigns, that said Letters Patent should have been issued to R. Hoe d2; 00., their heirs M. V. MONTGOMERY,

\ Gountersigned: 1 Commissioner of Patents. 

